Maybe you really want to build your own, but if not, Newsblur is an RSS reader has an excellent ability to include email newsletters.

When a human-powered transcript flows seamlessly from "tide disputes" to "Thai disputes" without once taking on board that "tides are these ecclesiastical taxes ...".

I realise it is absurd to take to Twitter to wonder where are the blog carnivals of today, but ...

... where are the blog carnivals of today?

https://jeremycherfas.net/blog/weeding-mendels-garden-and-other-blog-carnivals

This:

For all the talk about how the internet isn’t as interesting as in the “Good Old Days”, there are so many places I would happily spend time reading and contributing to if each day was at least twice as long. So many chats, so many forums, so many blogs, so much social media.

Thanks, Ton, for your post linking to Alan Levine's Google-taming post. With your guidance, it was easy to knock up a few Alfred workflows. I should note, too, that DuckDuckGo has a !bangsearch for !flickrcc (which gives slightly different results, because it uses a different CC code) and possibly others

Great insights into the botany of the pine nut via @BitKblog. The botany would be the same for Araucaria araucana seeds, but I wonder why they aren't marketed -- too rare? -- or how the flavour profile compares.

https://botanistinthekitchen.blog/2021/12/19/the-adoration-of-the-pine-nut/

Chuffed to learn that @scotlandbread won @bbcfoodprog award for Food Innovation. If I were in Scotland, I'd be sourcing from Flour to the People. Instead, I gave a donation to the crowdfunder campaign at https://crowdfunder.co.uk/scotlandthebread

Eat This Newsletter 171 is out, with Canadian chickens, proletarian food systems, sweetness and dark, and a tribute to NI Vavilov. All connected, even if somewhat tenuously. Read it at https://buttondown.email/jeremycherfas/archive/eat-this-newsletter-171-proletarian/

Relaxing with a peppermint tea and some Lester Young, having put tomorrow’s Eat This Newsletter to bed, or whatever one does in this digital age.